[mythtv-users] Time-Warner Cable/upcoming top-to-bottom channel reorg

[jedi]

On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 05:01:45PM -0400, Eric Sharkey wrote:
> On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Michael T. Dean
> <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> >  If a channel with a given xmltvid disappears,
> > delete it.
> 
> Which, unfortunately, does really ugly things to any existing
> recordings referencing that channel.
> 
> Ideally no channel should ever be removed from the channel table while
> entries in other tables point to it.

    I am surprised that you don't already have the concept of a "defunct"
channel that has been superceded by a newer version of that channel some
place else.